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Full text of "The wedding of the rose and the lotus : a poem written on the near-completion of the Panama Canal, showing how the genius of the west, here typified by the rose, and the genius of the east, here typified by the lotus, are to be merged and mingled in one"

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THE   WIDE    PACIFIC    WATER5 

AND  THE    ATLANTIC    MEET. 

YYITH   CRIES  OF  JOY  THEY    MINGLE , 

IN    TIDES    OF    LOVE    THEY  G-REET, 

ABOVE   THE    DROWNED   AGES 

A    WIND    OF   WOOING-    BLOW5:- 

THE    RED    R05E    YY005  THE    LOTUS, 

THE     LOTU5    VYOOS       THE    RO5E 

THE     LOTU5    CONQUERED    EGYPT. 

THE  ROSE  WAS    LOVED   IN    ROME. 
GREAT    INDIA   CROWNED   THE   LOTUS: 
(BRITAIN    THE    R05ES    HOMED. 
OLD  CHINA    CROWNED   THE  LOTUS, 
THEY    CROWNED    IT  IN    JAPAN. 
BUT  CHRISTENDOM    ADORED    THE  R05E 

ERE     CHRISTENDOM    BEGAN 

THE    LOTU5    SPEAKS   OF  SLUMBER: 
THE    ROSE    IS   AS    A    DART., 

THE   LOTUS    IS   NIRVANA  I 
THE  ROSE  IS   MARY'S   HEART. 
THE  ROSE   16  DEATHLESS,  RESTLESS, 
THE  SPLENDOR    OF  OUR   PftUN; 

THE    FLUSH    AND  FIRE  OF   LABOPv 
THAT    BUILDS,  NOT  ALL  IN   VAIIM 


THE    CrENlUe>    OF   THE   LOTUS 
SHALL    HEAL    EARTH'S    TOO-MUCH   FRET. 
THE     ROSE,  IN    BLINDING  GLORY, 
SHALL    WAKEN    ASIA    YET. 
KAIL    TO  THEIR   LOV&S,  YE    PEOPLES  I 
BEHOLD,  A    YYORLD-WIND    BLOWS  , 
THAT    AIDS    THE  \VORY    LOTUS 
TO    WED    THE  RED   RED   ROSE'. 
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University  of  California  •  Berkeley 

Gift  of 
Richard    W.    Hall